In article <1991Nov25.173528.5682 at cco.caltech.edu>
morphy at cco.caltech.edu (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:
>robison at ribo.harvard.edu (Keith Robison) writes:
>>>> There is a blurb in today's (Sunday's) Boston Globe that a Christy
>>Turner from Arizona State University
>Hey, she's from Arizona, the state that just voted to ignore Martin Luther
>King Jr.
I'm certain that this will have no effect on Jones, but for the
benefit of any one who cares about rationality I'd like to state
a) ASU is a huge campus that pulls in people from all over the world,
so to assume that a person currently working there is "from Arizona"
is a bit of a stretch.
b) The state did not vote to have Martin Luther King Jr. ignored, they
merely voted against having another *paid holiday* for government
employees. Though some certainly had a racial motivation, editorials
at the time, and the later impeached governor's (eek that's a
different subject) arguments indicate that the major motivation for
choosing not to officially sanction Martin Luther King Jr. day was
economic.
I guess those were each worth about a cent...
Mickey Rowe (rowe at pender.ee.upenn.edu)
